PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: David Schlosberg, Environmental Justice
7 Jun 2019
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Professor environmental politics at the university of sydney. Books include defining environmental justice (2009), oxford handbook of. Environmental justice is a social movement that focuses on the fair distributions of environmental benefits and harms. Environmental justice also frames a social science literature studying correlations between environmental harms and benefits on the one hand and social identities or social locations on the other hand. A philosophy of environmental justice, such as the one developed by schlosberg, examines the ideas that contribute to both the social movement and the social science of environmental justice. Environmental justice ought to be understood as having distributive dimensions, but also as relying heavily on the ideals of recognition and political participation. Schlosberg takes up young"s critique of the distributive paradigm, and argues that distributions are only one, underlying component of environmental justice. We have to examine the "why" of inequity if we want to try to remedy it (fraser)
